Little Miss Perfect (The Perfect Trilogy: Book One)

Pep Rally

Casey was a bookworm, really. She liked to read, she never had anyone to talk to about her books because all of her friends eat, sleep, and breathe cheer. Addison tried for a while but found that fantasy just really wasn't her thing. Jenifer, better known as Lacey now, had tried too but preferred romance to her dystopian society books. Bucky never tried. So as always Casey sat alone reading a book outside the school before class. "Did you know how harassed Zombies were?"

She didn't bother to look up at Addison and just bit into her apple turning the page, "since my initiation yeah, why? What did Bucky have you do?" She knew how bad things were of course, but she figured she could never do anything about it. She was one person and the only person whose actions she could control were her own. Did it bother her? Of course, it did. Could she do anything about it? No. So why worry?

"He wanted me and Bree to egg their houses! We didn't, and we threw them out after he left us there."

"Good for you," she still didn't look up.

She shook her head, "no its not," she pushed down Casey's book. "That Zombie I was with in the safe room saw me and he looked so disappointed."

Casey placed her page marker in and stowed the book away in her bag, " I wouldn't normally condone talking to a boy but maybe you should set the record straight with him. Maybe apologize."

Addison stood excitedly and ran towards Bucky; this wasn't going to go over well. She sighed taking a minute to mentally steal herself before walking over. She heard Bucky say, "It's best if you don't question things."

"Question what exactly?" She figured it had to do with the Zombies given the previous interaction, but she felt like she had just missed a crucial part of the conversation.

"Nothing," Bucky averted the conversation, "Pep rally today, cuz, you're gonna rock it."

"Yeah, you'll do great," Casey smiled, letting Bucky place his arm around her, kissing her temple. She wanted to know what he wasn't telling her. He did this a lot, withheld important information.

Addison grabbed her hand, "please come with me to apologize."

She nodded, "Kay, someone threw up in the cafeteria anyway which is why I'm out here." They went down to the basement, "I thought they had renovated this into an actual classroom. This sucks."

They walked in, "hey there's no human students in the basement," the teacher said or rather the janitor. That made Casey growl under her breath, they hadn't even gotten a real teacher. All the students turned to the two cheerleaders.

"Someone yacked in the cafeteria," Addison told him.

The man sighed, "right, I'm still the janitor."

Zed walked up to Addison and Casey nudged her forward, "wow this is awful."

"Yea we would have cleaned but the teacher's territorial about his mop," a zombie girl named Eliza said, and they weren't sure if she was joking or not. Casey let out a small gasp under her breath drawing Eliza's attention away from Addison. Eliza looked at her for a minute before realization flickered across her features. Casey let a sad smile light up her expression, two little girl's giggles ring off in her ears. Eliza glared heatedly at her.

The two humans moved out the way letting the janitor get through, "Addison what are you doing here, and I thought you wanted me to keep away."

Casey brought herself back to the present, "My name is Casey not you," she rolled her eyes. "Addison has something she wanted to say to you."

"I'm sorry, my cousin, he's a jerk about zombies and last night was cheer initiation." Zed looked up at her; board, "not that that's an excuse. I'm so sorry."